Would it be able to handle a sudden power outage? A fire alarm going off?

This company will be long gone by the time that happens.

There should not be deadly consequences because you shouldn’t be leaving any person or other animal unattended in a car for that long.

He was two years old, so I doubt he’d understand or retain it in the first place

Fringe cases yes, like rare conditions. It almost certainly won’t be able to handle something completely unexpected.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

And for some reason this is allowed?

Well, no one has stopped them, so yes that makes it allowed, I guess.

This makes the federal government look like a bunch of kids just attacking people indiscriminately.

Oh no, I assure you, they are very discriminating in choosing their targets.

I didn’t realize it had sold quite that many. I knew he spent a lot of time working on it, like 70 hours per week for 4.5 years, but that still works out to at least an enormous $12,000 an hour! Even if he kept at 70 hours/week for all ten years, it’s still only half that number, far greater than you or I will likely ever see.

Considering how much time he spent developing it, I doubt the profit margin is actually all that good.

Putting everything on credit is a great plan if you expect the world to end very soon.

This isn’t already a thing? I thought everyone phased these out years ago.

You assume they actually care. They are quite intentional in what they are doing.

Because the goal is to cause destruction, not terror.

You say that like they aren’t. What do you think Ukraine has been doing?

He was a child and moved away very young. He isn’t qualified to have an opinion on it.

Pretty sure all three of those brands are owned by the same company too.

Also they might leach more metals, but they still don’t produce the other known carcinogens in cigarettes.

Sometimes China executes people for stuff like this.

Sort of. There are forms of alternative service. Or you could just go to jail instead.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article310176885.html

Most. I’ve used ChatGPT to sketch an outline of a document, reformulate accomplishments into review bullets, rephrase a task I didnt understand, and similar stuff. None of it needed to be anywhere near perfect or complete.

Edit: and my favorite, “what’s the word for…”